Overview

• Orders dated September 3, now published in the Gazette, confirm proscription of Jammu and Kashmir Ittihadul Muslimeen and the Awami Action Committee under the UAPA.
• The tribunals found material showing separatist advocacy that "seriously undermines the sovereignty and integrity of India" and collaboration with inimical cross‑border elements.
• The record included FIRs, testimonies by Jammu and Kashmir officials, social‑media content, organisational publications and sealed‑cover intelligence submissions.
• Panels rejected the groups’ claims of purely religious or socio‑political roles and noted that an association need not be militant to be declared unlawful under Section 3(1).
• The orders specify a five‑year outlawing subject to review, and the government recorded that personal religious practices are unaffected, citing permitted Moharram processions led by Masroor Abbas Ansari.